Shutdown Impact News Today

Answer. Countdown to shutdown. House speaker Kevin Mccarthys Chaotic Caucus has less than 16 hours to hammer out a deal, take the government open, and millions of federal employees paid. We are live on capitol hill with the down to the wire negotiations. Plus, we will talk to a single mother of four who works for the government who is left in financial limbo if congress does not get its act together. Plus, remembering senator Dianne Feinstein. New tributes pouring in for the longest serving fema...

The looming threat of a US government shutdown raises concerns and casts uncertainty on the provision of public services and the job security of federal employees, as Americans brace for a potential impact on their daily lives.

Here? >> not from the congressional side. the appropriators want to move as quickly as possible. >> let me also talk about some of the other pain points. in a different way from jake, thats pain points for human beings who live in this country. potentially still digging out of the damage from the last shutdown. people concerned about what the shutdown impact is on their taxes. what they need to do to move forward if they didnt get the back pay. just because you can see some of the headlines here...

Tonight $5,000, thats how much "the new york times" is estimating the average furloughed worker has missed in pay since the shutdown began. and theres no end in sight tonight. >> reporter: the shutdown impact is spreading sparking protests from thousands of airport workers across the country who are going without pay. and there is also growing security concern for air travelers. the tsa is reporting skyrocketing absences. 6.1% yesterday compared with 3.7% the same day last year. >> right now im ...

Airport. >> reporter: brianna, at airports across the country we are seeing the effects of this government shutdown really take its toll. a shortage of tsa agents, terminal b in houston has been shutdown since sunday arch because the tsa agent shortage and the executive vice president of the air traffic controllers source ya association saying that the governme government shutdown is putting a strain on the air travel system and these are troubling warnings coming from air officials across the c...

Go as smoothly as possible, give her the softest landing if she cooperated and tells the mueller team or government of what went on in that trump tower meeting or anything else anyone in the justice department wants to know about donald trump or people in his coterie. this is a very significant legal development, even though we do not see the names trump on this indictment, look for the justice department to do as it frequently does, use this as a lever to get information that it wants. >> thank...

Nasa bouncing back from the now-ended government shutdown. they are doing a space walk. >> everyone is back to work at kennedy space center and johnson space center in houston after yesterday all but essential employees told to stay home. no work today. but that shutdown canceled. all launches and postponed others as well. it did materialize up at kennedy space center. thats because all of the nasa workers as well as support staff were told they could not be at work because they were not going t...

With power. and if you dont have a super majority, you have to figure out how to compromise. this is not a mystery thing. this is simple math. republicans chose not to do it. then you have to ask yourself why. and the reason why is simple. politics. >> well, i really -- i predict that democrats are not going to let this go too long. they will cave because they know they get another bite at the apple. they can say, we shut the government down in the past, well do it again in the future if you don...

Alert and make sure we do everything possible to prevent it this time. >> sure, he led, cruz, the last shutdown and it cost the government $24 billion. how would another shutdown impact the country in your estimation at this point? >> it would create havoc once again. we have a congress right now coming back in september, only about nine legislative days to go before we have to fund the next year of the u.s. government. and so if senator cruz and the tea party succeeds in shutting it down, youre...

Lapses and appropriations and its effect on veterans has been very difficult for us to get the information out of your office. for example, the original feel guide that va put out regarding the shutdown impact, it first spoke of no effect. no effect, on payments to veterans or processing of their benefits. but in a later version, va stated that a prolonged shutdown would impact both, but didnt provide any details as to how it would be impacted. secondly, the veterans health administration is not...